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Allelic variants in TLR10 gene may influence bilateral affectation and clinical course of Meniere’s disease

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Toll-like receptors trigger the innate immune response by activating various cell types such us macrophages and lymphocytes. We genotyped SNV of TLR3, TRL7, TLR8 and TLR10 in 863 Spanish and 150 Italian patients with Meniere’s disease (MD) and 1,013 controls by using Taqman assays. Real-Time qPCR was used to measure the expression level of TLR10 in peripheral blood leukocytes. The overall dataset showed that the C allele and the CC genotype of rs11096955 in TLR10 gene were more commonly observed in controls than patients (corrected p = 1 × 10−3, OR = 0.68 [95 % confidence interval, 0.54–0.84] for CC genotype; corrected p = 1.5 × 10−5, OR = 0.75 [0.66–0.85] for allele C). Moreover, the CC genotype was more frequent in patients with uni- (19 %) than bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) (13 %). Logistic regression demonstrated that the time since the onset of MD, Tumarkin crises, hearing stage and rs11096955 were independent factors influencing the risk of bilateral SNHL. In addition, rs11096955 influenced hearing loss progression in patients with bilateral MD. No change in expression of TLR10 was observed according to CC, CA or AA genotypes. Our data suggest that allelic variants of TLR10 gene may influence the susceptibility and time-course of hearing loss of MD in the European population.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all MD patients and control subjects for participating in this study. We thank Ana Anton Conejero, Maria Antonia Gallego and Cristobal Zapata for the help in the sample recruitment and Casimiro Castillejo-Lopez and Alejandro Diaz Barreiro for their assistance with the RNA isolation. This work was funded by Research Grants FIS PI09/00920 from Instituto de Salud Carlos III and BIO103SA/51/11 from Health Department of the Castilla y Leon Regional Government by FEDER Funds from the EU. JALE was partially supported by DP-0041-2011 Grant from Health Department of Andalusian Regional Government.

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  1. Otology and Neurotology Group CTS495, Human DNA Variability Department, Centro de Genómica e Investigación Oncológica, Pfizer/Universidad de Granada/Junta de Andalucía (GENYO), Avda de la Ilustracion, 114, 18007, Granada, Spain

    Teresa Requena, Irene Gazquez & Jose A. Lopez-Escamez

  2. Department of Immunology, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain

    Irene Gazquez, Antonia Moreno & Miguel A. Lopez-Nevot

  3. Department of Otolaryngology, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Angel Batuecas

  4. Department of Otolaryngology, Complexo Hospitalario de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain

    Ismael Aran

  5. Division of Otoneurology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Andres Soto-Varela & Sofia Santos-Perez

  6. Department of Otolaryngology, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Nicolas Perez

  7. Division Otoneurology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain

    Herminio Perez-Garrigues

  8. Department of Otolaryngology, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain

    Alicia Lopez-Nevot

  9. Department Otolaryngology, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid, Spain

    Eduardo Martin & Ricardo Sanz

  10. Department of Otolaryngology, Hospital de Cabueñes, Gijón, Spain

    Paz Perez

  11. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Complejo Hospitalario Badajoz, Badajoz, Spain

    Gabriel Trinidad

  12. Group of Genetics of Complex Diseases, Human DNA Variability Department, Centro de Genómica e Investigación Oncológica, Pfizer/Universidad de Granada/Junta de Andalucía (GENYO), Granada, Spain

    Marta E. Alarcon-Riquelme

  13. Department of Otolaryngology, San Raffaelle Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

    Roberto Teggi

  14. Division of Dialysis and Nephrology, Hospital San Raffaelle Scientic Institute, Milan, Italy

    Laura Zagato

  15. Department of Otolaryngology, Hospital de Poniente, Almeria, El Ejido, Spain

    Jose A. Lopez-Escamez

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Requena, T., Gazquez, I., Moreno, A. et al. Allelic variants in TLR10 gene may influence bilateral affectation and clinical course of Meniere’s disease. Immunogenetics 65, 345–355 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00251-013-0683-z

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